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Author: Pete Hill

  • Building China Moon

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    China Moon was designed to be a comfortable cruising Catamaran to be used for long voyages to remote cruising grounds. Fitting a junk rig on the boat was a major consideration. Having read about the successful junk rigged catamaran ‘Dragon Wings’, designed and built by Gary Lepak, I felt it feasible to design my own…

  • A Passage South

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    Cruising seems to be feast or famine. After the non-stop conviviality of the splendid RCC Azores Meet, we now planned to spend nearly three months on our own, sailing down to Cape Town with only a short stop in Brazil to have a break and replenish our water and supplies of fresh food. On 3…

  • Meta Ursa Incognita

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    This cruise was awarded Juno’s Cup by RCC. Annie and I crossed the Atlantic to the West Indies for the winter in 1996 and sailed up to Nova Scotia from the Virgin Islands the following April. When we arrived in early May, we were a little surprised to find it frosty and that all the…

  • A Penguin on the Foredeck

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    This is the cruise for which the RCC Challenge Cup and the Goldsmith Exploration Award were presented. It was with some trepidation that we sailed from Stanley in the Falkland Islands, outward bound for the Antarctic.  Our original plan had been to visit South Georgia and then sail on to Cape Town. In the winter,…

  • Badger to Beaver and Back

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    We don’t usually take crew along on our cruises, but Steve Spring is an old friend and he expressed a desire to visit the Falkland Islands. He thought it unlikely that he would ever get there in his own boat and so the arrangements were made. Steve lives in Ohio and, after trying several travel…

  • South to Stanley

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    The cruise for which the RCC’s Romola Cup was awarded. Although we had intended to leave England directly after the Beaulieu Meet, it was not until 26 September that we managed to sail from Falmouth. A minor overhaul of Badger’s motor had turned into a major re-engine job, when the cost of repairs turned out…

  • Aboard Badger

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    Pete and Annie Hill We have found Badger performs at her best to windwards with a F4-5 and wind over tide – e.g. beating up a river against the ebb, because in a chop the foremast starts to ‘pile drive’ and ruins her progress. We have tacked through 85°, but in the above conditions would…

  • Inter Coastal Waterways – BVI

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    Pete & Annie Hill We spent some time in Halifax, Nova Scotia. From there we’ve been working our way south. At present we are in St. Michaels. We stayed around a few days and then set off South. It was very cold and we had ice on the dinghy in the mornings. We decided to…

  • North to Uummannaq

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    It was either Greenland or Greece; we hadn’t decided just where to go for our summer cruise. Annie, who dislikes being cold, wet and frightened, felt that Greenland would give her too much of all three; I reminded her that ‘strenuousness is the path of immortality’. She wasn’t impressed. However, we had the good fortune…

  • Cuban Coffee

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    Pete and Annie Hill sailed Badger from the Solent to the Caribbean via the Algarve and the Azores, re-crossing the Atlantic to visit family in Scotland and thence to Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The return journey to Warsash nonstop from Limfiord was marred by a F 9 gale in the German Bight during which Annie…

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